Feb 2012
10
04:01 am
GryphonsLair/Diane Echelbarger died peacefully this afternoon in hospice.
We were close and then very close and then not close. We reconnected some in October. She was stubborn, ferociously independent, kind, difficult, strong, smart, funny ... I will miss her, I will mourn her, I will remember her.
What else is there to say?
We were close and then very close and then not close. We reconnected some in October. She was stubborn, ferociously independent, kind, difficult, strong, smart, funny ... I will miss her, I will mourn her, I will remember her.
What else is there to say?
Once again, Emilie asked if 4:00 would work for me instead of 3. This worked out well because I then spent an hour on the phone with my health insurance company and a doctor's office, trying to figure out why I had believed this would be an "in network" visit ($25 copay) and it was processed/charged as out of network (and I was billed $500). The upshot of this is that (a) the doctor's office agreed to reduce their charge, and is sending an updated bill for $250; (b) I will be filing an appeal with the insurance company, though the person I spoke to didn't seem to think my chances were very good; and (c) I have told the doctor's office that I'm appealing, and it may take up to 45 days, and they are making a note of this and said they won't send the bill to a collection agency while I'm appealing. So that all took an hour, after which I had a late lunch, and some soothing conversation with ![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
adrian_turtle before heading out to the gym.
( gym notes )
And then a quick stop in the Village to pick up coffee for![[livejournal.com profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cattitude, who has spent a lot of time this week buying and then doing stuff with a new fax machine/printer/copier/scanner that I will probably be the main user of. (The next step on that involves calling Verizon; wish me luck.) The errand took a little longer than I'd hoped, because the C train is infrequent, but was otherwise quite straightforward.
adrian_turtle before heading out to the gym.( gym notes )
And then a quick stop in the Village to pick up coffee for
cattitude, who has spent a lot of time this week buying and then doing stuff with a new fax machine/printer/copier/scanner that I will probably be the main user of. (The next step on that involves calling Verizon; wish me luck.) The errand took a little longer than I'd hoped, because the C train is infrequent, but was otherwise quite straightforward.![[syndicated profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
(Ice Cream Shop | Newington, NH, USA)
(One day, my brother stopped by my work to chat. He is about 6 feet tall, broad shouldered, has short hair, and a beard. A customer comes in, so I say goodbye to my brother and he leaves.)
Customer: “What a funny looking girl!”
Me: “Umm…that was my brother.”
Customer: “That was your mother?!”
Me: “Uh, no. My brother.”
Customer: “Oh…*places order*“
(Cellphone Store | Sydney, Australia)
Customer: “Hi, I have a few questions about this product.”
Me: “Sure, what would you like to ask?”
Customer: “I have no idea…”
As I drag myself through the training material for Security+, I have started addressing my need for sanity with Star Trek Online, which went Free to Play recently. It's on Steam, and my main character is a Bajoran by the last name of Cello. I made him a science type.
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fan_flashworks is a pan-fandom, pan-media flashworks community. Imagine if whatever_flashfic was actually any fandom flashfic, and not just fic, but other media types as well! And it had a new challenge every ten days!OMG, I hope the mods can keep it going, because it sounds SO AWESOME.
The current challenge (running until 4pm PST on February 10) is "Lost Hour" works, and I have one for the XMFC fans out there:
An Hour, More Or Less, XMFC, Charles/Erik. Charles loses an hour; Erik finds it and puts it to good use. 1460 words.
GO FORTH AND FLASH!
...OR SOMETHING!
Home after 11pm today again, but at least for a reason other than work: Hamlet performance at the most in/famous of our theatres. Snagged the offered gift ticket off my favourite h.c. at the workplace, because hey, swift as a deer, quick as a snake; winter is not coming but already here.
( Hamlet, and also the vagaries of living in a city close to the place where you grew up )
( Hamlet, and also the vagaries of living in a city close to the place where you grew up )
Silver Wings (1083 words) by 
derryderrydown
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (2011)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Peggy Carter/Howard Stark
Characters: Howard Stark, Peggy Carter
Summary:
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (2011)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Peggy Carter/Howard Stark
Characters: Howard Stark, Peggy Carter
Summary:
It wasn′t hope that took Peggy dancing, two Saturdays after Steve was killed.
Currently standing at around a thousand words, and unlikely to ever be finished because I've completely forgotten what I was intending to do with it. I think I was heading towards identity porn. I usually am.
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[commit: http://hg.dwscoalition.org/dw-free/r
Create local secret cache
These things are created once an hour and never change for a given time.
Instead of hitting memcache every single time, let's create a local cache.
Patch by![[staff profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png)
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Create local secret cache
These things are created once an hour and never change for a given time.
Instead of hitting memcache every single time, let's create a local cache.
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Don't load your last comment over and over
This was being called for every comment. It doesn't change on a single page
load, so let's move it up so it loads once.
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Don't load your last comment over and over
This was being called for every comment. It doesn't change on a single page
load, so let's move it up so it loads once.
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Matthew Aslett wrote about how the proportion of projects released under GPL-like licenses appears to be declining, at least as far as various sets of figures go. But what does that actually mean? In absolute terms, GPL use has increased - any change isn't down to GPL projects transitioning over to liberal licenses. But an increasing number of new projects are being released under liberal licenses. Why is that?
The figures from Black Duck aren't a great help here, because they tell us very little about the software they're looking at. FLOSSmole is rather more interesting. I pulled the license figures from a few sites and found the following proportion of GPLed projects:
RubyForge: ~30%
Google Code: ~50%
Launchpad: ~70%
I've left the numbers rough because there's various uncertainties - should proprietary licenses be included in the numbers, is CC Sharealike enough like the GPL to count it there, that kind of thing. But what's clear is that these three sites have massively different levels of GPL use, and it's not hard to imagine why. They all attract different types of developer. The RubyForge figures are obviously going to be heavily influenced by Ruby developers, and that (handwavily) implies more of a bias towards web developers than the general developer population. Launchpad, on the other hand, is going to have a closer association with people with an Ubuntu background - it's probably more representative of Linux developers. Google Code? The 50% figure is the closest to the 56.8% figure that Black Duck give, so it's probably representative of the more general development community.
The impression gained from this is that the probability of you using one of the GPL licenses is influenced by the community that you're part of. And it's not a huge leap to believe that an increasing number of developers are targeting the web, and the web development community has never been especially attached to the GPL. It's not hard to see why - the benefits of the GPL vanish pretty much entirely when you're never actually obliged to distribute the code, and while Affero attempts to compensate from that it also constrains your UI and deployment model. No matter how strong a believer in Copyleft you are, the web makes it difficult for users to take any advantage of the freedoms you'd want to offer. It's as easy not to bother.
So it's pretty unsurprising that an increase in web development would be associated with a decrease in the proportion of projects licensed under the GPL.
This obviously isn't a rigorous analysis. I have very little hard evidence to back up my assumptions. But nor does anyone who claims that the change is because the FSF alienated the community during GPLv3 development. I'd be fascinated to see someone spend some time comparing project type with license use and trying to come up with a more convincing argument.
(Raw data from FLOSSmole: Howison, J., Conklin, M., & Crowston, K. (2006). FLOSSmole: A collaborative repository for FLOSS research data and analyses. International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering, 1(3), 17–26.)
The figures from Black Duck aren't a great help here, because they tell us very little about the software they're looking at. FLOSSmole is rather more interesting. I pulled the license figures from a few sites and found the following proportion of GPLed projects:
RubyForge: ~30%
Google Code: ~50%
Launchpad: ~70%
I've left the numbers rough because there's various uncertainties - should proprietary licenses be included in the numbers, is CC Sharealike enough like the GPL to count it there, that kind of thing. But what's clear is that these three sites have massively different levels of GPL use, and it's not hard to imagine why. They all attract different types of developer. The RubyForge figures are obviously going to be heavily influenced by Ruby developers, and that (handwavily) implies more of a bias towards web developers than the general developer population. Launchpad, on the other hand, is going to have a closer association with people with an Ubuntu background - it's probably more representative of Linux developers. Google Code? The 50% figure is the closest to the 56.8% figure that Black Duck give, so it's probably representative of the more general development community.
The impression gained from this is that the probability of you using one of the GPL licenses is influenced by the community that you're part of. And it's not a huge leap to believe that an increasing number of developers are targeting the web, and the web development community has never been especially attached to the GPL. It's not hard to see why - the benefits of the GPL vanish pretty much entirely when you're never actually obliged to distribute the code, and while Affero attempts to compensate from that it also constrains your UI and deployment model. No matter how strong a believer in Copyleft you are, the web makes it difficult for users to take any advantage of the freedoms you'd want to offer. It's as easy not to bother.
So it's pretty unsurprising that an increase in web development would be associated with a decrease in the proportion of projects licensed under the GPL.
This obviously isn't a rigorous analysis. I have very little hard evidence to back up my assumptions. But nor does anyone who claims that the change is because the FSF alienated the community during GPLv3 development. I'd be fascinated to see someone spend some time comparing project type with license use and trying to come up with a more convincing argument.
(Raw data from FLOSSmole: Howison, J., Conklin, M., & Crowston, K. (2006). FLOSSmole: A collaborative repository for FLOSS research data and analyses. International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering, 1(3), 17–26.)
The Catholic Church placed an ad in Montreal newspapers Thursday encouraging people to pray for an eighth-place finish — and a playoff spot — for the Montreal Canadiens.
The ad shows the Eastern Conference standings with every team listed except the Canadiens. In eighth place, the final playoff spot, it simply says, "Let Us Pray."
ETA:kyriacarlisle brings us the full glory:
The ad shows the Eastern Conference standings with every team listed except the Canadiens. In eighth place, the final playoff spot, it simply says, "Let Us Pray."
ETA:
kyriacarlisle brings us the full glory: So I found one of these coats at a vintage store yesterday:
Only blue:
(I didn't like the conch-and-tassel detail, so I trimmed them off. I am not sure if I regret this. Googling suggests it's not a vital component, just one trim style among many)
With no tag on it. When asked, the woman behind the counter said, $40.00.
I was sort of wavering over it, not because I don't know what a Woolrich blanket coat is worth but just, oh, I dunno, was it like or was it love, you know?
... until she pointed out that she was putting all the winter coats on 1/2 price in a week anyway and offered it to me for $20.00.
I am torn between extreme snugness and mild guilt.
But having actually worn it, not to mention lent it tolookingforserenity at the hockey last night, it's definitely love. It makes me miss my late lamented Australian leather hat, but it will set off my nice new Tilley winter hat extremely well.
*gloats*
Only blue:
(I didn't like the conch-and-tassel detail, so I trimmed them off. I am not sure if I regret this. Googling suggests it's not a vital component, just one trim style among many)
With no tag on it. When asked, the woman behind the counter said, $40.00.
I was sort of wavering over it, not because I don't know what a Woolrich blanket coat is worth but just, oh, I dunno, was it like or was it love, you know?
... until she pointed out that she was putting all the winter coats on 1/2 price in a week anyway and offered it to me for $20.00.
I am torn between extreme snugness and mild guilt.
But having actually worn it, not to mention lent it to
lookingforserenity at the hockey last night, it's definitely love. It makes me miss my late lamented Australian leather hat, but it will set off my nice new Tilley winter hat extremely well. *gloats*
